We did a close reading of Alexandra Kleeman’s You, Disappearing and damn what a short story www.guernicamag.com/you-disappea...

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie! This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

Here's what a police detective wrote about this sweatshirt in 2019.

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm). roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

Wrote you a letter 💌

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings open.substack.com/pub/ingridro...

"Other countries that have previously been featured on the watchlist in recent years include Zimbabwe, Argentina, El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Time for my incredible tax expenses system where I’ve left the expense as an unread email in my inbox along with all my other unread emails 💀

I’m on Substack btw

Beautiful prose from @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Many things are hard to see through. ... Something has happened to language. Things are becoming interchangeable. President. Autocrat. substack.com/home/post/p-...

If you are freaking out, engage with trusted groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Allow them offer some guidance about what you can do and how you can help.

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

Trump just took 500 Marines on standby to help with escalating California wildfires and sent them to the border instead, where migrant crossings have been at the lowest level they’ve been in years since July. Unbelievable. And apparently armed, which is new. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

I don't think people quite grasp how much danger the media is in.

Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️

Excuse me? They can't have their OWN books???

This motherfucker here.

Wikipedia is a great achievement of our era, and (of course) it’s under attack by the far right. If you use it frequently like I do, consider donating: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

“The language of pain allows those who suffer, those who acknowledge their suffering and share it with others, to articulate an inexpressible experience as an intrinsic criticism against the sources that made it possible in the first place.” —Cristina Rivera Garza giving us reasons to write

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get on this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. I’m allergic to promoting myself, but if I can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

This perfecg Tilsa Otta poem <3

We knew it was coming and yet.

100 Days of Creative Resistance launched today, with R. O. Kwon. Even if you haven’t signed up, you can read Kwon’s post here: mailchi.mp/c5a285e83b27... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

It's not just undocumented immigrants. The Trump birthright citizenship EO says that every child born to a parent here on any non-immigrant visa (including student visas and other visas which allow people to live in the US for years) is not a US citizen. Unconstitutional in the extreme.

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

LA stay safe sending you all love

I’m taking a zoom class with Brian Eno and somebody asked what he was reading and it was Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 🎈 we love to see it

Finished my first book for the year! I recommend this as a fiction companion to The Man Who Could Move Clouds by @ingridrojasc.bsky.social app.thestorygraph.com/books/2f4a60...

Impossible to spell the word subpoenaed without autocorrect because in your head it’s always sub-peon-Aeneidmeteorshower-d

the March 2025 online CRIT guest lineup is an ALL TIMER: ⭐ @melissabroder.bsky.social ⭐ @ingridrojasc.bsky.social ⭐ Rachel Kushner apps open till Jan 31 crit.works/apply

Excuse me…WHAT?!?! 😭 www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

I spoke with immigration organizer Silky Shah about how organizers are preparing to defend immigrant communities, and what actions we can take to prepare and respond. If you want to get more involved, be sure to check the resources in the show notes.

ALTER EGO is out today from @flatironbooks.bsky.social! Grab it from your local indie or wherever you get your books! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Next year is 40 years of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social let’s make it 40 more! ❤️

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

What a joy to get to read @rokwon.bsky.social's process journal for EXHIBIT!

For @thecut.com I wrote an essay about this relationship breaking one thanksgiving years ago — it is also an essay about an America increasingly cozy with troubling ideas normalized by T*ump Sending love to everyone spending or deciding not to spend time with family www.thecut.com/article/brea...

"My father-in-law asked if the reason I cared so much was because I was “illegal” myself." This piece by @ingridrojasc.bsky.social is too real. www.thecut.com/article/brea... #immigration #undocumented

while writing Exhibit, I also kept a process journal, writing notes to myself & maybe to the novel about the attendant thoughts, feelings, terrors, joys, anxieties & now it’s out!, thank you to @bombmag.bsky.social for publishing this 🖤

Slowing down the breath to relax rarely works on me but today I tried the prompt of feeling the breath from the POV of the air as in the air molecule is entering and exiting the body like it’s on a giant fun rollercoaster 🎢 and frankly I imagined a little guy being like wee and frankly that worked